TIH 018: Ray Cluley on Water For Drowning, What Makes A Good Short Story and The Joy Of Writing

  • June 20, 2014

  • 3 mins to read

Water for Drowning by Ray Cluley

In this podcast we talk to the award-winning author Ray Cluley about his forthcoming This Is Horror release, Water For Drowning, the award-winning ‘Shark! Shark!’, the short story form, mermaids and much more. Topics [00:46] Ray Cluley biography [03:27] Water For Drowning  [06:00] Dan asks the important Mermaid questions [10:45] Short stories [16:40] Different markets and genres …

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News Round-up Week Ending 20 June

  • June 20, 2014

  • 3 mins to read
Bones of You

Spectral Press channels the past Inspired by the Pan and Fontana books of horror and ghost stories, Spectral Press have announced their own version The Spectral Press Book of Horror Stories. This will be the first installment in an annual series. The book will be edited by Mark Morris and will feature stories from Conrad Williams, …

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Book Review: Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

  • June 19, 2014

  • 7 mins to read

“King’s prose is littered with colourful references and character quirks that can make even the most mundane of scenes come alive.” Mr Mercedes is the latest book from Stephen King. Following in the footsteps of his recent novel Joyland, it veers away from the traditional perception of King’s work to take on hardboiled crime. It begins …

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Look Out For… The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti and Acolytes Of Cthulhu

  • June 18, 2014

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For…  The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti “One of the best horror writers we have is back.” Throughout Ligotti’s ‘career’ as a horror writer, many of his stories have evolved from physical or emotional crises. And so it was with the surgical trauma that led to the stories in The Spectral Link, an …

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